Having now upgraded to IDSP 2014, what is the best workflow to get some good looking 3D visuals (stills/movies etc) from Civil 3D to present to planners/authorities/clients etc.
Is keeping everything in Civil 3D the best way or should I be looking at Infraworks/3DS Max/Navisworks?
Infraworks seems pretty slick but I can't seem to be able to show proposed earthworks platforms easily. The aerial photo seems to be draped over them rather than allowing me to chop a hole out as I can in Civil 3D. The only way I have been able to do this is by creating a coverage and styling that which seems a bit of a workaround.
The 3D performance of Infraworks is pretty slick compared to Civil so in this respect it is preferable to Civil.
Any thoughts gratefully received........
Thanks
neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
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Actually I used Infrastructure Modeler and I can get pretty good looking results with it. Yes, now it is converted to Infraworks and more or less the UI changed a bit, but looks like promising for the future. I know some modules are provided with the Ultimate version that I wish would be provided to the Premium, but it looks like the tendency is for the future to have maybe a real 3D design tool besides C3D.
Now I can say Infraworks still lacks lots of things for visualization, but for a beginner in the visualization /presentation it is what you need. Now if you want to dig deeper and want better results, that implies more work, therefore learning to use 3DS 🙂
Now this is one of my beginner visualizations, but I think I can get it to do much more : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9yhYNpTnKs
I know that for good rendering and the whole "real" feel I will end up using 3DS in the end, but for a quick and no time consuming I can always use Infraworks.
neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
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